topic Re: "£" symbol in Operating System - HP-UX

"£" symbol

Zeeshan Zafar — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 11:14:11 GMT

I'm connected to the hpux 11.11 through telnet but it cannot access the "£" symbol on my keyboard. It displays "#" instead of "£".

Is there a problem with key mapping ?

TERM set to vt220 and i'm using WRQ Reflection for unix.

Thanks,
Zeeshan.

Re: "£" symbol

Victor Fridyev — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 11:26:31 GMT

Hi,

It seems to me, your keybord is define as US and you need UK. Look for keybord configuration in Reflection.

HTH

Re: "£" symbol

Peter Nikitka — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 11:31:05 GMT

Hi,

the answer is: that depends ...

If you are using latin1 character set and your tty setting are ok, that should print the pound symbol:
echo '\0243'

Check the output of 'stty' (istrip, cs8) and 'locale'.

mfG Peter

Re: "£" symbol

Zeeshan Zafar — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 11:36:44 GMT

keyborad mapping Reflection is set to UK.

->locale
LANG=
LC_CTYPE="C"
LC_COLLATE="C"
LC_MONETARY="C"
LC_NUMERIC="C"
LC_TIME="C"
LC_MESSAGES="C"
LC_ALL=

>stty
speed 9600 baud; evenp hupcl -cread
min = 1; intr = ^C; erase = ^H; kill = ^U;
swtch ;
brkint -inpck icrnl -ixany onlcr tab3
-iexten echo -echoe -echok
-echoctl -echoke

Re: "£" symbol

Peter Nikitka — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 11:44:02 GMT

Hi,

check with
locale -a

if there are locales available using charset iso8859-1 .
Then set in apropriate one, e.g.

export LC_CTYPE=C.iso88591

stty -a
gives more info about tty settings.

mfG Peter

Re: "£" symbol

Zeeshan Zafar — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 06:12:56 GMT

sorry for late reply, i havent been managed to test it.

tried it today but it didnt work.
->export LC_CTYPE=en_GB.iso88591
->#
->stty -a
speed 9600 baud; line = 0;
rows = 24; columns = 140
min = 4; time = 0;
intr = ^C; quit = ^\; erase = ^H; kill = ^U
eof = ^D; eol = ^@; eol2 ; swtch
stop = ^S; start = ^Q; susp ; dsusp
werase ; lnext
parenb -parodd cs7 -cstopb hupcl -cread -clocal -loblk -crts
-ignbrk brkint ignpar -parmrk -inpck istrip -inlcr -igncr icrnl -iuclc
ixon -ixany -ixoff -imaxbel -rtsxoff -ctsxon -ienqak
isig icanon -iexten -xcase echo -echoe -echok -echonl -noflsh
-echoctl -echoprt -echoke -flusho -pendin
opost -olcuc onlcr -ocrnl -onocr -onlret -ofill -ofdel -tostop tab3
->

Any suggestion please?

Re: "£" symbol

Peter Nikitka — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 07:37:59 GMT

Hi,

try again after setting

stty -istrip cs8

mfG Peter

Re: "£" symbol

Zeeshan Zafar — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 08:16:39 GMT

Thanks Peter,

It works :)

Re: "£" symbol

Zeeshan Zafar — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 09:04:22 GMT

Thank you all for your suggestions.